16.48 pm No wonder he's gone off to the cricket. The Sun's Tom Newton Dunn reveals that Ken Clarke no longer holds the title of Cabinet minister. He is a Minister of State attending Cabinet. Salary will drop as well, presumably.

16.39 pm Michael Fabricant, who is / was a Treasury minister, tweets:

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Michael Fabricant - Even though I have quit (cleared my desk today), I shall be on front bench between 5 and 6pm as no-one yet appointed to replace me. A hoot.&lt;/noframe&gt;

16.37 pm Sarah Teather is leaving the Government.

16.36 pm No 10 has said that overall, the bill for ministerial pay will not rise.

16.34 pm Mark Hoban to replace Chris Grayling as Minister of State at Work and Pensions. Damien Green becomes Policing Minister working from both the Home and Justice Departments. And Simon Burns is the new Minister of State at Transport.

16.13 pm The briefing from the Tories is that Michael Fallon has gone to Business as a "counterweight" to Vince Cable, and from the Lib Dems that David Laws will "keep an eye" on Michael Gove at Education. In other words, Mutually Assured Destruction.

16.06 pm Eye Spy MP reports that Ken Clarke has done a John Major (who similiarly went off to the Oval to watch the cricket after losing the 1997 general election):

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Nick Herbert - Decided to step down from Govt. Honoured to have worked with police &amp;amp; driven big reforms. Will focus on new ideas &amp;amp; protecting countryside.&lt;/noframe&gt;

15.48 pm Mark Prisk has replaced Grant Shapps as Housing Minister, according to the PA's James Tapsfield.

15.46 pm The Countryside Alliance is keen on new Environment Secretary Owen Paterson:

I welcome the new Secretary of State to his role but I serve notice to him today that, unless he removes the threat to the NHS from his Government’s policies, he will face the same opposition as his predecessor."

14.49 pm Nick Harvey announces that he is leaving his post as Armed Forces Minister.

14.45 pm Labour have issued an official response to the reshuffle in the name of Michael Dugher, shadow cabinet office minister:

This is the no-change reshuffle. No move for a failing Chancellor in charge of a failing economic plan that has delivered a double-dip recession, who gave a tax cut for millionaires and who refuses to tax bank bonuses. And there are no moves across almost all of the most senior cabinet jobs.

"On Sunday David Cameron promised to 'cut through the dither', but today he was too weak to move Iain Duncan Smith from the Department of Work and Pensions and was forced to back down.

"Jeremy Hunt, the man who broke the ministerial code and failed to stand up to News Corporation, is now in charge of the NHS, our most cherished national institution. This won't change David Cameron's policy of continuing with a massive top-down NHS reorganisation.

"This reshuffle isn't a fresh start - it's more of the same from an out of touch and failing Government that stands up for the wrong people."

14.42 pm The Fawcett Society says the number of women in the Cabinet has fallen by 20 per cent. Ceri Goddard, Chief Executive:

“Prior to the 2010 General Election, David Cameron pledged to make a third of ministers in his first government women but in one fell swoop he has cut the number of women at the top table of politics by some 20 per cent. We now have a Cabinet where men outnumber women five to one, making some of the biggest budgetary decisions of this era. Despite near universal acceptance that we need more - not less - involvement of women in building our economy, the Prime Minister has chosen to further marginalise women’s influence on politics."

14.38 pm The reshuffle has moved on to the ministerial level. Farmers Guardian reports that Jim Paice is no longer Farming Minister.

14.34 pm Sky's Sophy Ridge reports that Jo Swinson is joining the Government as a minister in the Department of Business, with Norman Lamb moving from there to replace Paul Burstow at Health.

• 14.27 pm The SNP view of the reshuffle: Chief Whip Stewart Hosie MP said: “David Cameron’s ministerial reshuffle will be pointless unless it is accompanied by an urgent rethink of the UK Government’s failed economic strategy. The absence of changes at the Treasury must not mean business as usual."

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Peter Hain - My best wishes for the future to &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/CherylGillanMP" target="_blank"&gt;@CherylGillanMP&lt;/a&gt; as she joins us in the ex-Secretary of State for Wales Club&lt;/noframe&gt;

• 14.00 pm The nation breathes a sigh of relief as Larry the cat confirms his position is safe:

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Larry the Cat - It's confirmed that I have retained my position as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet. In your face, Pickles. &lt;a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=reshuffle" target="_blank"&gt;#reshuffle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noframe&gt;

• 13.44 pm Zac Goldsmith is also unhappy about Justine Greening's move. Heathrow shaping up to be one of the biggest stories of the reshuffle. His tweets:

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Zac Goldsmith - Real leadership requires clairty, not subterfuge. It's time for the Govt to be honest: has it changed its view on Heathrow; yes or no?&lt;/noframe&gt;

• 13.42 pm Natalie Bennett, the new Green Party leader, chips in on Heathrow: "The shifting of Justine Greening out of transport, after only 326 days in the job, makes Andrew McLoughlin Cameron's fifth Transport Minister, which can be taken as a sign of the Government's inability to make sensible policy in this area. It is a bad sign that a third runway at Heathrow is indeed back on the Government's agenda."

• 13.38 pm Nick Clegg has welcomed David Laws back to government in person with a handshake on the steps of the Cabinet Office.

• 12.55 pm Boris Johnson is not best pleased about Justine Greening's move from Transport - and he's not afraid to say so. He tells Sky "Justine has been a first rate Transport Secretary. There can be only one reason to move her - to expand Heathrow... clear Government wants to ditch promises." This could be fun.

• 12.37 pm Matthew Parris claims on Sky that Baroness Warsi failed as Party Chairman because elements in Tory grassroots were not ready for an Asian woman in the job.

Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps (Getty Images)

• 12.36 pm That was quick - Grant Shapps is tweeting already in his new capacity as Conservative Party Chairman:

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Tory Chairman - Delighted to have been appointed &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/torychairman" target="_blank"&gt;@torychairman&lt;/a&gt; - looking forward to working with the team at CCHQ.&lt;/noframe&gt;

• 12.29 pm If Friends of the Earth are lamenting Justine Greening's move, the Board of Airline Representatives (BAR UK) takes a different view. They've issued a press release saying: "BAR UK welcomes the appointment of Mr Patrick McLaoughlin as Secretary of State for Transport." I bet they do!

The newly named International Development Secretary Justine Greening (PA)

• 11.58 am After some wrangling, it sounds like Baroness Warsi is off to the Foreign Office in a new position as faith and communities minister, attending Cabinet. Like Clarke, the Cabinet duties are something of a sop.

• 11.19 am Theresa Villers certainly has a tough task in her new job as Northern Ireland Secretary. Does this also spell the end for Owen Paterson's grand and so far largely unsuccessful project to unite the UUP and Conservative Party?

• 11.15 am Downing Street has issued a statement saying that the Prime Minister has paid tribute to Sir George Young as he retires to the back benches after standing down as Leader of the House.

• 11.05 am Jeremy Hunt confirms that he is the new Health Secretary as he leaves No 10. " It's a huge task, the greatest privilege of my life."

• 11.02 am I love this tweet from Labour's Jim Murphy:

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Jim Murphy - Only 1 Tory MP at 5-a-side football this morning, the rest at home in the belief that staring at their phone would make it ring. &lt;a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=reshuffle" target="_blank"&gt;#reshuffle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noframe&gt;

• 10.54 am Ken Clarke has just been doorstepped by Sky about his move - he claimed to be thrilled to be in Government at all, and that he and David Cameron had always agreed he would only do a year or two at Justice. Sounded pretty gloomy though.

• 10.42 am Rumours that Jeremy Hunt could go to Health in place of Andrew Lansley. Michael Deacon is not impressed:

"Well, Jeremy. In the eyes of the public you're a laughing stock, and at Leveson you embarrassed both yourself and me. Fancy a promotion?"

Jeremy Hunt arriving in Downing Street (Geoff Pugh)

• 10.42 am Chris Grayling is now in No 10, apparently...

• 10.41 am Presumably Andrew Lansley's move means that Sir George Young is being quietly retired to the back benches.

• 10.40 am Chris Hope checks in:

Welcome Jones the Minister! Westminster journalists are currently scrabbling to find out something - anything - about the new Tory Welsh secretary David Jones, MP for Clwyd West, who has the dubious distinction of being the first actually Welsh Welsh Secretary for years. #He was senior partner of a practice (David Jones & Company) based at Llandudno. He is married to Sara, a nurse, and has two sons. Apparently he tweeted "Well I'll be darned" at some point last night on Twitter - and then quickly deleted it.

• 10.38 am Downing Street has sent out its first official announcement of the reshuffle, confirming Theresa Villiers as Northern Ireland Secretary.

• 10.34 am Biggest scalp yet - Andrew Lansley has apparently been moved from Health to Leader of the House. That's a big demotion and says it all about Lansley's failure to communicate his NHS reforms.

• 10.33 am Not Transport but Northern Ireland for Theresa Villers, apparently. That must mean promotion for Owen Paterson.

Note, in the background of all TV news reports on the reshuffle, the cheery multi-coloured bunting hung on the railings outside Number 10. Wonder what it says on it. "Happy Sacking Day!"

• 10.27 am Sky's Glen O'Glaza speculates that Theresa Villers could be on her way to Transport as she arrives at No 10 grinning. She shadowed the job in opposition and is currently minister of state in the department. And most importantly, she doesn't have Justine Greening's qualms about a third runway at Heathrow. Her appointment would also help boost the female quota around the cabinet table.

• 10.03 am New Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell has just gone into No 10, telling reporters "It's a lovely day". He'll play a crucial role in keeping the party in line during the new Parliament. Will he be asking new ministers if there's anything they want to come clean about before they accept high office?

(Will Oliver/AFP/Getty Images)

• 10.01 am David Cameron has returned to No 10. Suggests that the bloody knifing stage of the reshuffle may be over - he would have used his Commons office to see victims to spare them the ordeal of walking past the cameras in Downing Street.

• 9.56 am Further to our story about Labour calling for an inquiry into Housing Minister Grant Shapps' online activities, I can disclose that the Permenant Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government has given him the all-clear. Clears the way for promotion for the ambitious Mr Shapps...

Is this the first reshuffle to have partly taken place overnight? We went to bed with only rumour and speculation to think about; in the morning we wake up to find Mitchell's been confirmed as Chief Whip, Warsi's gone as co-chairman, Gillan's removed "Welsh Secretary" from her Twitter bio. It feels a bit like some weird political version of Christmas. "Mummy Mummy, look! Santa Claus has been in the night! And he's given me Northern Ireland!"

• 9.36 am iain Duncan Smith said to have argued that he should stay put at Work and Pensions rather than moving to fill Ken Clarke's hush puppies at Justice.

• 9.35 am The Howard League for Penal Reform has issued a statement regretting "breath of fresh air" Ken Clarke's departure as Justice Secretary. Helps explains why David Cameron moved him on.

• 9.27 am Seems certain that Justine Greening (Transport), Jeremy Hunt (Culture) and Andrew Lansley (Health) are on the move. But where will they end up?

David Cameron arriving in Downing Street (Geoff Pugh)

• 9.18 am Now No 10 is saying that there will be no Cabinet at all today. Had been expected this afternoon, with the customary toothy grin photo of the new team. Delaying it until tomorrow suggests the knifing is proving slow work. Messy reshuffles are great fun.

• 9.16 am Downing Street has just cancelled the daily morning Lobby briefing as a result of the reshuffle.

• 9.10 am A former chancellor, Mr Clarke has apparently been given a role of using his "expertise" to liaise with MPs and the public on the economy in a "roving brief". Still sounds like window dressing. And uses up a precious seat round the Cabinet table for a terribly vague position.

• 9.03 am With Cheryl Gillan off from Wales, the rumour mill suggests that her replacement will be her current junior minister, David Jones.

George Pascoe Watson, formerly the Sun's Political Editor, points out this could be good news for the admired Maria Miller, who had been tipped for the Welsh Office but could now be aiming higher.